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Original Bitcoin Wizard Artist Raises Nearly $150,000 in BTC via Lightning, Despite Criticism From Bitcoin Maximalists
21.2.2023
On Monday, crypto proponent Udi Wertheimer shared a story on Twitter explaining how he and the Taproot Wizards helped an artist who created the original 2013 bitcoin wizard meme raise nearly $150,000 in bitcoin. While the minting and sale were successful, Wertheimer explained that bitcoin...
French Luxury Brand Hermes Wins NFT Trademark Infringement Lawsuit
10.2.2023
French luxury brand Hermes has won a lawsuit against an artist who depicted its famous Birkin bags in a non-fungible token (NFT) collection. The artist argued that NFTs should be covered under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment but the jury disagreed. Hermes Wins Lawsuit Against...
Netflix’s AI Anime Gets Roasted For Crediting Artist As ‘Human’
1.2.2023
The anime community has been rife with controversy over AI-generated images. Today, Netflix joined the hot new trend of being ratioed online for terrible AI takes. The streaming platform not only produced a commercial project with AI, it tried to justify doing so by citing the “labor shortage”...
Assassin’s Creed Comic May Have Hidden Message From Frustrated Artist
27.1.2023
This year the Assassin’s Creed franchise turns 15 years old. In that time, the franchise has expanded into multiple games, mobile spin-offs, books, movies, shorts, and more. It’s a big, complicated universe that involves historical conspiracies, shadowy cults, and ancient aliens. And those ancient...
This Absurd Real Car Designed By A Game Artist Is Almost Sci-Fi Satire
27.1.2023
You know where you’re going wrong? After a long day indiscriminately firing your Beretta 1301 in the desert, you’re home chugging back your InfoWars Ultimate Bone Broth Plus, when you discover you’re all out of SSI Sight-Rite chamber cartridge laser bore sights. So you jump into your SUV to head...
Mastercard Artist Accelerator Program: Web3 project to connect artists, mentors & fans
9.1.2023
Mastercard has now taken the initiative to leap into the next level of propagating music by successfully launching its Web3-based Mastercard Artist Accelerator Program. It is accepted and well-understood that Web3 has the inherent potential of creating an altogether different angle where music...
Mastercard Taps Polygon to Empower Emerging Artists in Web3 Tech
9.1.2023
Mastercard, the payments giant, has partnered with Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform, to introduce emerging artists into Web3 technology. Mastercard’s artist accelerator, as the program is called, will teach five different emerging artists, including singers, musicians, DJs,...
Amazon's MMO Covers Up New Hero To Make Her Less Risqué
3.1.2023
On December 22, the popular 2019 Korean MMORPG, Lost Ark, announced an update to a hero class months before her official release in the U.S. and Europe in April. The update isn’t a gameplay one, but rather, a cosmetic one that will tone down any perceived lewdness by adding some length...
NFT Market Will Bounce Back With Lower Interest Rates, Digital Artist Says
30.12.2022
NFT artist Ovie Faruq, also known as OSF, says the hybrid asset will bounce back in time but the Federal Reserve will need to lower interest rates
Report: R&B Artist Akon Denies Claims His Crypto City Dream Is Crumbling
27.12.2022
Senegalese-American artist, Akon, reportedly reassured participants in his so-called token of appreciation (TOA) that they will be reimbursed for donations. To back this promise, the singer reportedly claimed he is even willing to do “a world tour just to pay them all back.” Akon...
Artist Turns Down $3,000 Fortnite Job Offer, Calls It 'Hilarious'
6.12.2022
While Epic Games continues to position itself as a pro-game developer company, the same can’t be said for how it treats artists and their copyrights. The Fortnite developer recently offered $3,000 to an artist for an illustration and the copyright—which meant that they wouldn’t be able to sell...
Most Influential Artist: Adam Levine
5.12.2022
The artist made a portrait of crypto critic Molly White, and went down the Web3 rabbit hole she opened up
Most Influential Artist: Osinachi
5.12.2022
The Nigerian artist creates one-of-a-kind images using Microsoft Word. For this season, he depicted Mikhaylo Federov, the Ukrainian official who raised about $200 million in crypto for that country's war effort
Most Influential Artist: Ravi Vora
5.12.2022
Most Influential Artist: Sarah Script
5.12.2022
Most Influential Artist: Federico Solmi
5.12.2022
The Italian artist, a resident of New York City, created a 3D image of Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum developers for their role orchestrating The Merge, the most consequential upgrade in blockchain history
Most Influential Artist: Federico Solmi
5.12.2022
The Italian artist, a resident of New York City, created a 3D image of Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum developers for their role orchestrating The Merge, the most consequential upgrade in blockchain history
The Artist and Technology Behind 36 AI Portraits
5.12.2022
How to generate three dozen portraits for the Most Influential 2022 in about a week? Meet Will Ess and Pixelmind.ai, the app that saved this CoinDesk feature from visual ennui
Most Influential Artist: Dave Krugman
5.12.2022
The photographer captured his portrait of Erick Calderon at a Bright Moments NFT art event in Mexico City
Most Influential Artist: Bryan Brinkman
5.12.2022
The Dubai animator tries to display the mystery of Razzlekhan and Lichtenstein, the beginning of this year’s decent into fraud and deception